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Seeking natural colors for foods and beverages

• Posted by PepsiCo
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• Project Size : 50,000 - 250,000 €

PepsiCo is evaluating different natural color ingredients and technologies to replace Yellow #5, Yellow #6, Red #40, and Blue #1 for multiple food and beverage brands in order to address consumer demand. Specific challenges are in the Red #40 (food) and Blue #1 (food & beverage) replacers.

Seeking Rapid Substance Detection in Inspection and Supply Chain

• Posted by The Procter & Gamble Company
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• Project Size : 250,000 - 1,000,000 €

Procter & Gamble is a global leader in innovation, products and services for consumer goods in categories like Beauty (Hair and Skin Care), Fabric & Home Care, Baby Care, Oral Care, Health Care, Family Care, and Feminine Care. We focus on designing and manufacturing superior products, packages and experiences that are safe to consumers, the environment and supply chain partners. P&G undertakes significant efforts to analyze compositions of raw materials and finished products and packages from development to manufacturing through the supply chain. NEED DESCRIPTION For most substances we lack rapid, easy-to-use yet precise detection devices/ methods for inspections at P&G operations (e.g. material income, manufacturing control, cleaning of equipment) and at our supply chain partners that can be used by workers and do not require laboratory environment/ standards

Seeking existing market solutions targeted towards crawling insects

• Posted by The Procter & Gamble Company
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• Project Size : Strategic project backed by large scale funding €

The issue of crawling insects in homes has been an ongoing issue. The popular types of crawling insects causing problems have been ants and cockroaches. The search will focus on existing market solutions targeted towards crawling insects such as ants and cockroaches (other types of crawling insects are in scope i.e., bed bugs).

Pínea - Eco-friendly firelighter

• Posted by UACOOPERA University of Aveiro from uacoopera
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• Patents for licensing

Eco-friendly firelighters, exclusively composed by natural and recycled materials, based on forest waste and bee wax. The firelighter resulting from this mixture is, itself, involved in a vegetal fiber-based paper, which can be detachable and individually used. The product aims the promotion of a better environmental sustainability and a closer relationship with the forest.

iGuess4SECAP - An Energy Transition Platform for Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Planning for Cities and Regions

• Posted by Fabian Belin from Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST)
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• Innovative Products and Technologies

The iGuess® platform framework has been developed since 12 years with different stakeholders at city and regional level and different applications in mind. The entire platform with all components is developed and owned by LIST. An enormous amount of knowledge in interoperable GIS based web platforms for a diversity of applications is contained at LIST level and can also be transferred. The increasing demand for sustainable energy solutions and the urgent need to combat climate change have made renewable energy a crucial aspect of urban development. Cities must transition to renewable energy sources and integrate them into their energy systems. However, the process of planning and implementing renewable energy projects in urban areas can be complex and challenging. It requires holistic and sustainable approaches which can only be delivered by in- depth/deep technologies, such as interoperable web- and cloud-based platforms, integrating a diversity of data and IoT sources, simulation and forecasting tools, as well as complex 3D-4D visualisation tools, in order to develop and implement decarbonisation strategies across the globe for cities, regions and nations.

Precursors of linear polyacenes: entry door to new semi-conductor materials

• Posted by Institut Català d'Investigació Química (ICIQ)
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• Patents for licensing

A new strategy for the preparation of precursors of linear acenes has been developed. The developed acene precursors are hydrogenated acenes and are stable upon storage. They can be prepared in several synthetic steps using two catalytic key preparation steps. The precursors can be deposited onto surfaces and submitted to annealing to generate the linear acene. This strategy afforded the first-ever preparation of undecacene.